Saturday, January 3, 2015

2015 Challenge: Off The Shelf

Challenge Basics:Name: Off the Shelf ChallengePrevious Hosts: Bookish ArdourStarts: January 1, 2015Ends: December 31, 2015Eligible Books: Books you own prior to 2015. Levels: I'm going to try to read 12 books. That's one a month. Surely I can mange that??Sign up page

Why I'm Interested:

I'm not sure if Bookish Ardour is hosting this challenge in 2015, but it's a challenge I need to participate in again. This is my Achilles's heel of challenges. I have the hardest time with this one, but it's one I really, really, really want to accomplish.

I have far too many books I haven't read. Not only do I feel silly for having so many unread books that remain unread year after year, but that's valuable shelf space! I want to use this challenge both to read these books, but also to cull my shelves.

I signed up for this challenge in 2014 and didn't realize until halfway through December that I still had five books left to read to finish the challenge. Honestly, I "didn't realize" because I had pretty much already given up on that challenge and made peace with the fact that I am SO bad at it.

Enter, Gina. She was an awesome motivator and I actually accomplished my goal and completed the 2014 Off the Shelf challenge and I totally credit Gina entirely for that! That was the first time I have ever finished that challenge, and I think I'm still in shock.

But, I'm also motivated to do it again! While I'm really happy I read all those books, I'm also super happy at how many books I ended up DNF-ing and then removing from my shelves...and then bringing them to my local used book store and swapping them out for new unread books on my shelves.

But, I totally consider that a win.

Some books I'm considering:

I picked up a whole bunch of historical fiction books in 2013 and I still have far too many of them unread. So, all of those. Also, anything on my Own-Unread shelf that I acquired prior to 2015.